Brussels, 23/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - Adopting on 22 January 2009 a new draft directive to recast the 7 existing directives on industrial emissions into a single piece of legislation (see Europe 9571), the European Parliament's Environment Committee gave the go-ahead in first reading to simplification of the legislation and a strengthening of its measures to further reduce industrial pollution from the 52,000 industrial installations in Europe that will be covered by the new directive. The...